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The King Hall Negotiations Team (KHNT) was founded to recognize the utility of alternative dispute resolution skills as they relate to legal practice. KHNT works to educate and train students on the arts of negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and client counseling pertaining to a wide range of situations including contract disputes, public relations management, and family dispute resolution. By regularly hosting speakers and skills training workshops from throughout the legal profession, students, faculty, and guests engage in educational lectures and discussions. Further, organizing biannual intraschool competitions and preparing team members for national competitions provides invaluable practical skills training to current King Hall students. 

HOW TO LEARN ABOUT NEGOTIATIONS
 KHNT hosts a number of noontime speakers on the King Hall campus throughout the year as well as various mixers in the Sacramento area. In particular, KHNT hosts speakers during their annual "Shark Week" preceding the Annual 1L Competition each fall. Past speakers have included Andrew Greenwell of "Million Dollar Listing: San Francisco," Suzanne Miller of Global and NA Commercial Sales Legal Group at Hewlett-Packard Company, Eric Kastner of Kastner Kim LLP, Dr. Scott T. McCreary of CONCUR Environmental Conflict Resolution, and Jason Jasmine of Messing Adam & Jasmine LLP, among many other distinguished guests. If you would like to learn more about what the KHNT does and skills we focus on, check out the KHNT blog here. 

HOW TO PRACTICE NEGOTIATIONS
Students can practice negotiations and other alternative dispute resolution through participation in competitions, coursework, and sparring. 

First year law students and LLMs at King Hall are welcome and encouraged to participate in the Annual 1L Negotiation Competition held every Fall at UC Davis School of Law. In the spring, all current law students and LLMs are encouraged to participate in the Annual Intraschool Negotiations Competition. Participation in each competition includes a mandatory skills training session and a unique fact pattern drafted by our problem writing chair. More information on both competitions can be found here.  

Coursework specifically related to the goals of KHNT include the following: Advanced Negotiations Strategy & Client Counseling, Alternative Dispute Resolution, International Business Negotiations, International Commercial Arbitration, Lawyering Process, Mediation, and Negotiations. To see if they are offered a particular semester, please check the registrars site here.

Team members and invited guests "spar" with KHNT Team Members throughout the year to prepare them for national competitions. Competitors practice the set of fact patterns provided by the competition organizers while the sparring partners create unique facts, attempting to predict the opposition's goals and strategies. 

HOW TO JOIN KHNT
Current second and third year King Hall students are eligible to join the King Hall Negotiations Team. Interested students submit applications in the spring and are selected by the sitting Board. Students with exceptional talent and demonstrated interest in alternative dispute resolution are admitted to the program. 

Blog

KHNT Competes in Unique South Texas College Energy Law Competition

Posted By Nathan Searcy, Mar 31, 2021

The 6th Annual Energy Law Negotiation Competition was held virtually on March 26-27, 2021. This competition allows students to develop their negotiation skills with real world fact patterns based on current issues in the field of energy. The King Hall Negotiations Team (KHNT) was represented by Aysha Majeed ’21 and Marjan Kris Ramos Abubo ’22.

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King Hall Students Take Initiative and Compete for the First Time in the UCLA Transactional Law Competition

Posted By Nathan Searcy, Mar 1, 2021

Teams from across the country competed in the UCLA Transactional Law Competition on February 26th. This competition offered law students an opportunity to draft and negotiate a complex business transaction. The King Hall Negotiations Team (KHNT) was represented by Kristi Thielen ’21, Ari Ghavami ’21, Alexandra Mills ’22, and Sam Morris ’21.

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